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Bright Star Dimmed: Roger Bate, 1923–20098/1/07Bate, who was a former chair and member of the SEI Board of Visitors, and a senior member of the technical staff and, later, a visiting scientist at the SEI, died March 18, 2009, in McKinney, Texas. He was 86.

CMMI Version 1.3—Plans for the Next Version7/31/09The CMMI Steering Group has approved criteria for the next release of the CMMI Product Suite. This column will describe the key ingredients and the plans for release of CMMI Version 1.3.

Introducing a Guide to Interoperability4/1/05Within the Department of Defense (DoD), government, and corporate worlds, large-scale systems of systems (SoS) are increasingly being put together in an unprecedented way. Establishing interoperability between the constituent systems is increasingly a key for an organization to meet its critical goals. However, as organizations envision transparent net-centric operations spanning a large number of systems, we have found that successfully achieving such a vision requires a fundamental shift in traditional ways of thinking about system development, acquisition, and management.

CMMI for Small Businesses: Initial Results of the Pilot Study3/1/04A frequent misconception about adopting Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is that it works only for large organizations—its cost and complexity appear to make it impractical for smaller organizations to implement. Jim Hendrix, a business systems engineer at Analytical Services Inc. (ASI), doesn’t believe that’s the case. His organization recently implemented three process areas (PAs) of CMMI as part of a pilot study with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). He said CMMI might even be more beneficial to smaller businesses because it allows them to grow more consistently and to make changes when they are less costly, that is, "before growth demands them."